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# Re: Verbing properties

- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:46:58 PST
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    It seems to me that this 'verbing properties' thing is a bad workaround for
    a server design bug.
    As I understand the proposition(s), the idea is not to have the verb
    actually _do_ anything to the property data it accesses, but merely to
    control access to it.
    As such, it's a workaround for the far-too-coarse controls on property
    access (r or !r, owner or non-owner, .wizard==1 or 0). And IMHO it's not a
    good workaround, for the reasons others have already mentioned. There's a
    distinction between static data structures (properties) and program code
    (verbs) for a reason.
    A better workaround might be to add more attributes to properties - perhaps
    a list of players who can read them, or a list of groups of players who can
    read them. Even an owner/group/public-read/write permissions mechanism such
    as UNIX uses would, while still not being excellent, probably remove the
    need for this 'verbing properties'.

    Matthew Sanderson
    m.sanderson@student.anu.edu.au
    The Australian National University, Canberra.

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